Senior Director, Corporate Development

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

Pay Range:

This position is eligible to receive a target annual cash bonus and long-term incentive package of stock grants based on individual and company performance, in accordance with company policy.

Position Summary & Key Responsibilities:

We are seeking a high energy, passionate and experienced professional to join our Corporate Development team as a Senior Director of Corporate Development, reporting to the SVP of Corporate Development & Strategy. This individual will work remotely from anywhere in the United States and require up to 50% travel during transactions.

The position has high visibility in the organization and involves frequent interaction with the Leadership and cross-functional teams. The Senior Director of Corporate Development will serve as the lead across all aspects of the acquisition lifecycle, including the formation, coordination and leadership of deal teams, due diligence, and represent Bio-Techne in deal negotiations. This role will also materially support the business leaders and strategy teams in developing proprietary market insight campaigns to identify inorganic growth opportunities. The successful candidate will develop and maintain strategic relationships with investment banks, venture capital and private equity firms focused on the life sciences and diagnostics markets. The candidate will monitor and report M&A competitor activities, landscape trends and key marketplace activities.

Required Qualifications:
 

• Bachelor's or master's degree (or equivalent). MBA strongly preferred

• 10+ years of relevant experience

• 3+ years of experience within the Life Sciences, Tool, and Diagnostics market

• Ideally 3+ year top-tier consulting experience

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong business, finance, and analytical skills

• Experience interfacing with senior management and/or clients

Preferred Qualifications:
 

• M&A and Divestiture track record and project management experience

• Solid working knowledge of Bio-Techne, including its business functions, markets, financial data, and systems

• Business/Corporate Development, investment banking/finance, private equity and/or management consulting experience

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Successful M&A Track Record

Experience leading major strategy and M&A projects, from target identification through post-transaction integration processes, with a positive, lasting outcome and measurable results.

Team Leadership

Consistent demonstration of exceptional leadership qualities, including but not limited to, the ability to attract and retain the best team, foster a culture of high performance, lead with integrity, humility, accountability, and courage, and set a clear vision to energize teams towards the future.

Consistent demonstration of ability to consult and influence the executive leadership team to support business growth.

Strategic Thinking

As Bio-Techne is looking to continue to innovate and evolve, the ideal candidate will:

• Have a strong strategic acumen

• Identifies strategic fit and leverage points for potential transactions and partnerships

• Can selectively support strategic planning activities where needed

Collaborating and Influencing

In a company that relies on teamwork and cross-functional collaboration, this leader will:

• Identify all necessary stakeholders and connect with them to gain support or agreement.

• Negotiate with a genuine give-and-take approach that takes all parties’ perspectives into account.

• Take advantage of opportunities to build strategic relationships to achieve a specific outcome.

• Engage others in open dialogue and adapts own influence approach to different stakeholders in ways that address their interests or concerns.

• Anticipate emerging or potential conflicts among all stakeholders and takes steps to pre-empt them.

• Exhibit Bio-Techne EPIC values in working within a highly matrixed environment.

Driving Results

As Bio-Techne enters its next phase of growth, the Senior Director of Corporate Development will:

• Ensure deal sourcing and structure to create value

• Enables setting of ambitious yet realistic deal models and identifies critical enablers and gotta believes

• Establishes integration roadmap to capture value

• Establishes a post-close tracking mechanism to measure success and identify countermeasures when needed

Why Join Bio-Techne:

• We offer competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield.

• We invest in our employees’ financial futures through 401k plans, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), Health Saving Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent Care FSA.

• We empower our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, tuition reimbursement, internship programs, and more.

• We offer employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives to build a culture of caring and belonging. 

• We offer an accrued leave policy with paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.

• We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.

Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.